{"id":6124,"date":"2011-08-27T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2011-08-27T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T19:52:13","slug":"fatwa-against-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/fatwa-against-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatwa Against Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[dc]I[\/dc] direct your attention to the excellent and overlooked article\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomatdc.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/17\/ronpaul\/\">The Case Against Ron Paul <\/a> by Gregory\u00a0Hilton.\u00a0 He goes to some length puncturing the inflated claims and exposing the outright falsehoods made by the Ron Paul crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, among other complaints, Ron paul is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a\u00a0third-party spoiler<\/li>\n<li>an isolationist<\/li>\n<li>a\u00a0protectionist<\/li>\n<li>an open borders advocate<\/li>\n<li>anti-Israel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it.\u00a0 Read the backing facts on Hilton&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul subscribes to a number of conspiracy theories, and has a snake-handling literalist&#8217;s view of the Constitution.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a staunch originalist, but that does not mean I view the only valid means of defending our country to be the issuance of &#8220;letters of marque and reprisal&#8221;.\u00a0 To Ron Paul, that&#8217;s exactly what it means.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a nut, but he&#8217;s stupid like a fox.\u00a0 Neither the Republicans nor the Tea Party can afford to fool around with this guy or his creepy cult-like anarchist following.\u00a0 If their assistance was what it took to win, I would rather lose and just shoot it out with tyranny.\u00a0 At least we stand a chance of winning that fight.\u00a0 If we accept Ron Paulism, we be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Root out and expose the Ron Paul crazies in any Republican or Tea Party groups.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When confronted, the cult-like Paulpods tend to throw off their cloaks of respectability and wade in with ad hominem attacks, or they begin pasting in large amounts of text or copious amounts of links.\u00a0 Shut them down.<\/p>\n<p>Some people simply support Ron Paul, and will not get all wounded when you criticize his policies,\u00a0such as\u00a0defense (they&#8217;re agin&#8217; it)\u00a0and gold (they&#8217;re fer it).\u00a0 I have some friends who find much value in some of Dr. Paul&#8217;s policy prescriptions, and they are alright people who contribute to conversations.\u00a0 Those are rare exceptions, however, and I shall have to trust that they understand.<\/p>\n<p>Cut ties with Ron Paul mutation of conservatism.\u00a0 It is not conservative, and it is not originalist.\u00a0 It is anarchy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6124\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6124\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[dc]I[\/dc] direct your attention to the excellent and overlooked article\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomatdc.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/17\/ronpaul\/\">The Case Against Ron Paul <\/a> by Gregory\u00a0Hilton.\u00a0 He goes to some length puncturing the inflated claims and exposing the outright falsehoods made by the Ron Paul crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, among other complaints, Ron paul is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a\u00a0third-party spoiler<\/li>\n<li>an isolationist<\/li>\n<li>a\u00a0protectionist<\/li>\n<li>an open borders advocate<\/li>\n<li>anti-Israel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it.\u00a0 Read the backing facts on Hilton&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul subscribes to a number of conspiracy theories, and has a snake-handling literalist&#8217;s view of the Constitution.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a staunch originalist, but that does not mean I view the only valid means of defending our country to be the issuance of &#8220;letters of marque and reprisal&#8221;.\u00a0 To Ron Paul, that&#8217;s exactly what it means.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230; 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